Posted on 08/08/2009 4:31:06 PM PDT by ifonlyallusawerenyc
Do you know how long it took me to assemble that BB? PLease don’t do anything that would disturb the orbit of our Planets around our Primary.
I suspect you were carrying the development of suitable materials for the interior of Ben Wa balls to a grotesque extreme.
Tungsten would appear to suffice.
Yes, even if Darks keeps leaving the lights on after he leaves a room...
The problem is the whole "instintaneous" nature of the "instant teleport travel" bit. If you compress this BB down just a few more angstroms, you reach Neutron star densities. This is a stability point with this particular atom wherein the forces the would tear it apart are in equilibrium with those trying to collapse it further.
The very nature of the TeleFrag would disturb this balance. A lot.
As in push Venus in toards Mercury on the one side and Earth towards Mars on the other...
IOW... VERY not good... As in... Exatons worth of "not good".
But a rellay neat power source that would replace every single one of our GCNR's in the size of a briefcase?
Now that would keep them talking for a while...
Oddly, due to the instability issue, I've given up on the idea. I'm on to trying to work my way back around to tying directly into the subSpace grid. 7th dimenional cross association to gravity. Should act like static electricity, but is a literally limitless supply of energy. Photons, heat, gravity, strong/weak nuclear, electro-magnetism, boson stability force, you name it...
I’m willing to stick with the tried and true.
Focus fusion and electrostatic confinement.
Tin cans and whiffle balls; how could you not trust that?
(Maybe we ought to lay in a supply of boron, just in case.)
I'm thinking power levels on the scale that would put us deep into the Oort cloud in days. Other solar systems in mere weeks.
Possibly even other Galaxies...
You come up with effective anti-gravity or true artificial gravity and we can get by with the rest.
By the way, my estimate for how long the U-know-what will last is more than five hundred years, even at full throttle.
That's why it would be nice to be able to burn boron. A virtually infinite supply could be obtained from a truckload.
Power corrupts.
It would be mightily tempting to have that kind of power. That's why I'd settle for something less compact, if other developments could lead to artificial gravity, or in your suggested scenario, a potential warp drive.
After all, with sufficient power, you can go where you like, but it will still take a long time, and you might as well plan on not coming back.
Well, shoot. I'd blamed Bill for that. I'll have to apologize.
Indubitably.
Some days I’d like to shred things, throw garbage around, and then say, “But I don’t want to clean up!” like the rest of my family.
But (sigh) somebody has to be the hooman ...
You need to learn to channel your destructive cleaning tendencies into a positive social venture like gardening.
True. Maybe I’ll take Frank out to work on the flower beds today.
I haven’t, yet.
But Bradamante’s hyperspace slide has one disturbing effect: as you approach or exceed “C”, your APPARENT density approaches or exceeds that of a planet.
Thus, anything along your path that is below your apparent density is gravitationally dragged with you or launched haphazardly away.
A flurry of teleFRAG shots upon arrival is hardly a friendly looking appearance.
But it is Sooooo tempting to see what that little bitty two millimenters would do via teleFRAG.
Well, yes.
We haven’t found the upper limit yet as the ‘limit’ so far is on powering the beast.
I suspect that densities of several hundred pounds per millimeter are merely a trifle.
So far the highest density tossed through was bar stock depleted U.
How many atoms can be teleFRAGged at a time?
What’s the minimum power output needed, as the transmission process could be choked back quite a bit.
Something like going from broadband back to dialup for internet access, but only because it is necessarry for the stability of the connection?
Call the power company and ask.
We used a homogeneous sample of carbon as the atomic structure is inherently stable and it's pretty plentiful. Hafnium is another highly stable material. We accidentally figured this one out while working on a couple of experimental reactor rods.
We've duplicated Podkletnov's experiment, but for our uses it isn't really all that effective.
That’s just it, if you have enough power... It might not take quite so long.
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